Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Our survival correspondent Blair Braverman is here to tell us the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. Of the 45 people on board, 16 ultimately lived. Their survival made them heroes, until the way they survived shocked the world. This week, a story of glaciers, peanuts, and friendship.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sure we've talked about this many times in the past and I guess don't remember, but |
| 0:04.6 | you can totally eat me if we're in that kind of a situation. |
| 0:07.4 | I mean duh. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to Your Honor About. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are talking about Flight 571. |
| 0:26.2 | This is a story I bet you've heard of, even if you don't know you've heard about it. |
| 0:30.2 | It's the basis for the book and film alive. |
| 0:33.4 | It is another survival story and much like our recent episode on the Donner Party, it's |
| 0:40.4 | a story that many of us remember entirely as a story about cannibalism. |
| 0:45.6 | The thing we're talking about today is all about the human events and strengths and love |
| 0:53.1 | and behavior surrounding the cannibalism. |
| 0:57.1 | This is the final chapter in our accidental survival trilogy which we began earlier this |
| 1:02.7 | year with the Diallav Pass episode. |
| 1:05.2 | And I'm very happy that we're releasing this for you on Halloween. |
| 1:10.3 | To me it's the best kind of scary story as survival stories often are because as scared |
| 1:16.9 | as we might be of what we would encounter in our survival situation and as much as we |
| 1:21.1 | might believe that it brings out the worst in us. |
| 1:24.1 | Quite often we can see the best of humanity or the most human within ourselves so clearly |
| 1:31.4 | in these stories. |
| 1:33.1 | This is a story about what people can do and I'm very excited to bring it to you. |
| 1:39.5 | If you want bonus episodes you can get them on Patreon or at Apple Plus subscriptions |
| 1:44.7 | and we have another Halloween episode out for you today with our dear friend Chelsea |
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